geography - study of the Earth’s people, places, features, and environment from a spatial perspective, patterns - an observable model, style or trend, generally observed on maps in geography, processes - a particular method that brings changes to the physical or human geography, geographic factors - physical and human conditions that impact the environments of places and regions, human geography - study of human activities related to interaction with the environment and control of the Earth’s surface, physical geography - study of the patterns and process related to the Earth’s surface, political map - shows boundaries between countries, states; shows capitals, cities; focuses more on government boundaries, physical map - shows identifying structures of the Earth's surface, such as mountains, plains, bodies of water, thematic map - shows a particular theme connected to a specific geographic area such as climate, topographical map - provides graphic representations of a land area, often giving geographic positions, elevations; frequently uses contour lines, revolution - the movement of the Earth around the Sun, rotation - the circular motion of the Earth around its axis, GPS - navigation and location system that uses satellite imagery, GIS - computer system that analyzes geographic data, absolute location - exact location, down to latitude and longitude, relative location - general area of a place when compared to another location,

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